Fragmentation is good, especially after the collapse of a monolith. It allows communities to find their own identity again away from the consensus.

It is nothing to fear, it is something to embrace.

And remember, the internet is fluid. Nothing is fixed. Freedom of movement.

#SocialMedia #Culture

Yes donating to the admin is nice, but have you considered we can use this energy to build institutions for actual user power?

Large scale user unions which fund the systemic development and sustainability of this environment? That fund moderation labor across the network?

Democratic institutions that can push back simultaneously against Big Tech, BDFL like Mastodon and misguided legislation to regulate the internet?

Umbrella organizations that can shield users from arbitrary abuses of instances and simultaneously assist teams running instances with legal issues, know-how, funds and best practices?

We're currently only scratching the surface of what federated social networks can be and we need to be way more ambitious.

👋 Are there yet any giant cell tumour #GCT #GCT-B #GiantCellTumour people here yet? Even more, anyone with #spinal #sacral #sacrum #GCT, or who have #primarybonetumours / #sarcoma - we are a rare group, I know.
But, you never know….

There is a large private patient group on FB but wondering if some of my #GCT fam have turned up here…. 👋🩻🦴

Hello Fediverse 🍇 We're a UK-based magazine of left philosophy and theory, self-published by editorial collectives since 1972.

We publish everyone from Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Antonio Negri, Étienne Balibar and Peter Sloterdijk to radicals, activists and intellectuals just at the start of their careers. Communist, socialist, feminist, queer, techno, art, ecological theorists...

We publish in print and online, currently three times a year. Our website contains our entire 50 year archive and there's no paywall. We'll post new issues with this account.

Look forward to meeting readers and writers, old and new, here on the Fediverse 💏
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Just used https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me to locate our Twitter follows/followers who have a Mastodon handle in their profiles, so that we can follow them here. Easy.

Hello to everyone just found :)

You can read the first chapter of McKenzie Wark's new #book, "#Raving", now, for free. It's delicious:

"It’s tempting to romanticize such moments. Mostly it’s just a grind, the body granulated into sound, light; selves loosening into others. It might take hours. The ravers I choose to be around, those who need it and can maintain, are patient. It isn’t grace, but not unlike grace, it comes when it chooses, not when you want. I don’t know why I need this, but I need it."

https://www.dukeupress.edu/raving

As I've been studying art, a name that's come up very frequently is Norman Rockwell. I've noticed something in every painting I've seen mentioned in the context of these studies: there are only white people. So I started wondering: did he ever paint black people? What were his opinions on us? Given how often his work is used to evoke "traditional" (AKA white) American culture, I decided to look into it a bit.

I didn't have to dive very deep to end up surprised. It turns out, the publication he originally worked for had a rule that people of color could only be shown in servile roles. When he changed publications (reportedly due to his frustration with this rule, among others) he published a few paintings that covered events in the civil rights movement, such as the murder of three black civil rights movements, Ruby Bridges being escorted to school, and a black family moving into and integrated neighborhood.

I can't find anything with him verbally stating his opinion on the civil rights movement, but based on these paintings, I can't help but think he was an ally.